created for Identiverse conference, Jun 2018
Level 0 Initial | Level 1 Managed Repeatable | Level 2 Defined | Level 3 Quantitatively Managed | Level 4 Optimized | |
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Characteristics | No Controls, Unpredictable and reactive | Tribe knowledge, often reactive | Proactive, Standards documented | Measured and controlled, automation | Stable and flexible, full automation |
Shared password vaulting and management | Post-it, spreadsheet, notepad, number of accounts unknown | Account inventory with manual rotation | Access controls, 2FA, IDM integration | RBAC/ABAC, all accounts managed | Password-less sessions, configuration management integration |
Account discovery | accounts unknown, tracked on spreadsheet | Manual search of directories and CMDB | automated feed from directories | automated provisioning for all accounts to vault or credential manager | automated tools for directories, fully integrated with config mgt tools |
Session Recording | None | Some privileged sessions recorded and stored | Automated searching of recordings | All privileged sessions recorded | Alerting and integration with your threat dection tools |
Account automation and lifecycle | None | Some accounts automatically provisioned and removed | APIs available for all systems to use in automation | All accounts automatically provisioned and removed | Accounts automatically provisioned with ABAC |
Session management and isolation | None | Some sessions managed | Bastion hosts and jumpboxes available for all environments | All sessions managed with no passwords exposed to users | Required for all segmented networks |
Application credential management | None | Some applications with manual credential managment | Most applications are covered | Programatic application account managment | All applications are in scope and compliant |
Privilege account analytics and auditing | None | Some servers enrolled | All critical servers (like domain controllers) are enrolled | All servers enrolled | Fully integrated with CIRT |
Threat detection and automatic response | None | Some servers enrolled, notifications are sent on issues | All servers enrolled | All servers enrolled and some threats can be processed automatically | Common threats handled automatically and alerts used when needed |